Rod Parsley Daily Devotional 4 May 2024, Saturday
TOPIC: Live to Love
“If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask Him?”
– Luke 11:13
God wants us to recognize our responsibility to operate in all the gifts of the Spirit and also expects us to validate those gifts by living a lifestyle that glorifies Him, and that means loving our brother even when our brother is unlovable.
God gives us gifts so that we can express His love to one another. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 stresses that the gifts are nothing without love. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 describes what love is and is not. The entire 13th chapter of Corinthians is to demonstrate how we are to serve one another in love.
Rejoice today in a love so deep and sure that death could not extinguish it. God’s love stretches from time eternal and reaches out to you with grace and mercy. That same love has been shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Spirit. Determine to reach out to someone today with the love of Jesus.
Holy Spirit, thank You for equipping me today with God’s love and His gifts to serve in His body.
Further Reading
Judges 19:1-20:48; John 3:22-4:3
Psalm 104:24-35; Proverbs 14:22-24
Rodney Lee Parsley is a prominent American Christian minister, author, television host and evangelist. He is senior pastor of World Harvest Church, a large nondenominational church in Canal Winchester